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From 1929 until 1980, the brand was owned by McGraw Electric, renamed to McGraw-Edison in 1957. Following a leveraged buyout in 1980 to Magic Chef, the brand changed hands several times and finally went public in 1992 as Toastmaster, Inc.
Proctor Silex electric can opener. Proctor Silex Co. was created in 1960 with the merger of Proctor Electric and the Silex Company. [1] In 1966, SCM Corporation bought out Proctor-Silex. In 1988, Proctor Silex was acquired by NACCO Industries, Inc. [2] In 1990, NACCO also acquired Hamilton Beach Brands as a subsidiary and merged the two ...
A waffle iron or waffle maker is a kitchen utensil used to cook waffles between two hinged metal plates. Both plates have gridded indentations to shape the waffle from the batter or dough placed between them. The plates are heated and the iron is closed while the waffle bakes. Waffles are a quick bread with a light and sweet flavor, similar to ...
Swartwout's letters patent. The earliest waffle irons were not the work of Swartwout; instead, they originated in the Netherlands circa 14th century. They were typically made of two hinged iron plates connected to two long wooden handles, the plates often imprinted elaborate patterns on the waffles, coat of arms, landscapes, religious symbols, and the like.
An illustrative cutaway of a typical waffle-iron filter design. A waffle-iron filter is a type of waveguide filter used at microwave frequencies for signal filtering.It is a variation of the corrugated-waveguide filter but with longitudinal slots cut through the corrugations resulting in an internal structure that has the appearance of a waffle-iron.
The Sunbeam CG waffle iron evolved from the Sunbeam Model W-1 and Model W-2 waffle irons of the 1940s. Overview. Introduced in 1955, the CG maintained the inner ...
After Procter moved to Los Angeles, her father paid for her to attend acting school for two years.Before even graduating, she had already landed a number of small film roles, including Cameron Crowe's sports romantic comedy-drama Jerry Maguire (), and as a co-star with David Schwimmer and Chris Cooper in the TV movie Breast Men ().
Mary Florence Potts (née Webber; November 1, 1850 – June 24, 1922) was an American businesswoman and inventor.She invented clothes irons with detachable wooden handles, and they were exhibited at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition World's Fair and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.